6 Plays: Birds / Lysistrata / Women at the Thesmophoria / Frogs / Assembly-Women / Wealth
by Aristophanes
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Jouees deux mois apres Lysistrata, aux grandes Dionysies de mars 411, les Thesmophories est la deuxieme piece feminine (mais surement pas feministe) d'Aristophane. Toutefois, si, comme dans Lysistrata, le choeur est compose de femmes, les preoccupations de ces dernieres sont bien differentes. Les thesmophories, mysteres dont la vue etaient interdite aux hommes, etaient celebrees en l'honneur de Persephone et de Demeter. Les femmes d'Athenes profitent de l'occasion pour decider du sort show more d'Euripide dont elles veulent se venger a cause du mal dit d'elles dans ses tragedies. Craignant le courroux de ces bacchantes atheniennes, le poete delegue un ami, deguise en femme, pour plaider sa cause. Travestissement, parodie et comique de situation sont les principaux ressorts de cette piece mechante, brillante et drole. Les Grenouilles ont elles aussi un sujet litteraire. Avec les morts a quelques annees d'intervalle, d'Euripide, Sophocle et Agathon, Athenes se retrouve privee de ses derniers Tragiques. Dionysos, dieu du theatre, entreprend d'aller aux Enfers pour en ramener un des poetes. Une querelle opiniatre s'engage entre Euripide et Eschyle. Celle-ci est l'occasion pour Aristophane non seulement de se livrer a un exercice de parodie et de critique litteraire, mais aussi de faire l'eloge d'un passe qu'il revere et d'un present qu'il abhorre. La piece connut un tel succes qu'elle fut jouee deux fois. Notre edition rassemble en un volume les Thesmophories et les Grenouilles et occupe le quatrieme volume des oeuvres Completes d'Aristophane. Une notice precede chacune des pieces et fournit, outre l'argument de l'intrigue, tous les elements, notamment politiques, necessaires a une bonne intelligence du texte ainsi que quelques pistes de lecture. L'ouvrage est en outre enrichi de notes qui accompagnent la lecture. show lessTags
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Contains Birds, Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusai, Frogs, Ecclesiazusai, Ploutos.
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Aristophanes, 448 b.c. - 385 b.c. Aristophanes is considered to be one of the greatest comedic writers ever to have taken to the stage. He was born in Athens, Greece, in the town of Cydathenaeum. Aristophanes is believed to have been well educated, which would explain his propensity towards words. It is also believed that he owned land on the show more island of Aegina. Aristophanes was first a satirist, he was well known for attacking anything from politics to poets, mainly the war between Sparta and Athens and the poet Euripides. He wrote more than 40, eleven of which are still being acted today. "The Acharnians" was his first play, written in 425, B.C.. This was the first of his plays in reaction to the war, as well as the play "Peace." But perhaps Aristophanes most famous play, Lysistrata, made his true feelings of the war known. In this play, the women seek peace by claiming celibacy until the fighting is stopped. It is the play that he is most famous for, for capturing the feeling of the people in a way that was both lighthearted and poignant. Aristophanes died three years after the war ended, in 385, B.C.,but left behind a legacy that has lasted to the present day. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 6 Plays: Birds / Lysistrata / Women at the Thesmophoria / Frogs / Assembly-Women / Wealth
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- Entre 414 et 388 avant JC
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